Thames Valley J2EE Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) skills within the Thames Valley region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location Andover Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cleveland Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	28
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	45	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	35.16 %	15.08 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£375
Average daily rate	£338	£450
% change on same period last year	-25.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£525
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£362
% change on same period last year	+4.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.48	£36.80
% change on same period last year	+9.99 %
Application Development Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	128	199
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.173 %	0.197 %
Daily rates quoted	14	29
Average minimum daily rate	£248	£366
Average daily rate	£265	£378
% change on same period last year	-30.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£281	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.00	£27.36
Average hourly rate	£40.25	£30.82
% change on same period last year	+30.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.50	£34.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.50	£32.82
% change on same period last year	-0.97 %
J2EE South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

J2EE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Thames Valley region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2EE across the Thames Valley region.

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the Thames Valley region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Thames Valley region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley region citing J2EE also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited J2EE.

1 53 (98.15 %) Java 2 38 (70.37 %) Oracle 3 32 (59.26 %) JDeveloper 4 8 (14.81 %) JUnit 5 6 (11.11 %) Struts 5 6 (11.11 %) Swing 5 6 (11.11 %) Spring 5 6 (11.11 %) Hibernate 6 5 (9.259 %) Test Scripting 6 5 (9.259 %) JSP 6 5 (9.259 %) Eclipse 6 5 (9.259 %) XML 7 4 (7.407 %) E-Commerce 8 3 (5.556 %) Servlets 8 3 (5.556 %) WebLogic

8 3 (5.556 %) JavaScript 9 2 (3.704 %) SQL 9 2 (3.704 %) LDAP 9 2 (3.704 %) Manual Testing 9 2 (3.704 %) CMS 9 2 (3.704 %) Oracle ADF 9 2 (3.704 %) TDD 10 1 (1.852 %) Retail 10 1 (1.852 %) Subversion 10 1 (1.852 %) SiteMesh 10 1 (1.852 %) Groovy 10 1 (1.852 %) Security Cleared 10 1 (1.852 %) Systems Analysis 10 1 (1.852 %) Business Analysis 10 1 (1.852 %) AJAX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley region citing J2EE also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited J2EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (11.11 %) Struts 1 6 (11.11 %) Spring 1 6 (11.11 %) Swing 1 6 (11.11 %) Hibernate 2 5 (9.259 %) XML 2 5 (9.259 %) JSP 3 3 (5.556 %) Servlets 4 2 (3.704 %) Oracle ADF 5 1 (1.852 %) SiteMesh 5 1 (1.852 %) JAXB 5 1 (1.852 %) HTML 5 1 (1.852 %) CSS 5 1 (1.852 %) XSL 5 1 (1.852 %) XSLT 5 1 (1.852 %) WebServices 5 1 (1.852 %) AJAX 5 1 (1.852 %) WebSphere 5 1 (1.852 %) Spring MVC 5 1 (1.852 %) Acegi Security 5 1 (1.852 %) Grails	Application Platforms 1 3 (5.556 %) WebLogic 2 2 (3.704 %) CMS 3 1 (1.852 %) JBoss 3 1 (1.852 %) Apache 3 1 (1.852 %) Tomcat 3 1 (1.852 %) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Business Applications 1 1 (1.852 %) Oracle EBS	Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.704 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.852 %) MySQL 1 1 (1.852 %) Oracle Reports	Development Applications 1 32 (59.26 %) JDeveloper 2 8 (14.81 %) JUnit 3 5 (9.259 %) Eclipse 4 1 (1.852 %) Subversion 4 1 (1.852 %) Ant
General 1 1 (1.852 %) Finance 1 1 (1.852 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 32 (59.26 %) Programmer 2 30 (55.56 %) Java Programmer 3 12 (22.22 %) Developer 4 11 (20.37 %) Java Developer 5 6 (11.11 %) J2EE Developer 6 5 (9.259 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 2 (3.704 %) Web Tester 7 2 (3.704 %) Senior Developer 7 2 (3.704 %) Junior Tester 7 2 (3.704 %) Senior Java Developer 7 2 (3.704 %) Tester 7 2 (3.704 %) Junior 8 1 (1.852 %) Architect 8 1 (1.852 %) Project Manager 8 1 (1.852 %) Analyst 8 1 (1.852 %) Technical Architect 8 1 (1.852 %) Web Developer 8 1 (1.852 %) Development Manager 8 1 (1.852 %) JSP Developer 8 1 (1.852 %) Oracle Analyst
Operating Systems 1 1 (1.852 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (9.259 %) Test Scripting 2 4 (7.407 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (3.704 %) TDD 3 2 (3.704 %) Manual Testing 4 1 (1.852 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (1.852 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (1.852 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (1.852 %) Web Development 4 1 (1.852 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (1.852 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.852 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (1.852 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 53 (98.15 %) Java 2 3 (5.556 %) JavaScript 3 2 (3.704 %) SQL 4 1 (1.852 %) Groovy	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.852 %) QA
Vendors 1 38 (70.37 %) Oracle 2 1 (1.852 %) SAP